Marie Tumlířová was among the first women ever to graduate from the Czech Technical University, a century ago, a year after equal rights for all were enshrined in the constitution. She earned her doctorate defending a thesis that would serve as an unlikely springboard to a career in politics – poultry farming. Her interests soon turned to rural sociology and women’s emancipation, through education and financial independence.
Marie Tumlířová was born on June 9, 1889 into a solidly middle-class family in Hradec Králové, a city at the confluence of the Elbe and the Orlice rivers, near a mountain range bordering Poland. She came of age during the First World War, beginning her studies in 1917, a year before an independent Czechoslovakia emerged from the crumbling Austro-Hungarian empire.
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U.S. Patent Granted For Czech Fuel Rod Coating
Scientists from the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University (CIIRC CVUT) and the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU AV CR) said they had obtained a U.S. patent for a polycrystalline-diamond coating that is intended to reduce corrosion – and by doing so, extend the life – of fuel rods in nuclear power plants during standard and emergency circumstances, such as a nuclear accident.
The research teams won a European Union patent for the same process in April 2020. The U.S. patent, the researchers said this week, would gain them access to all 94 of the nuclear reactors in the United States.